The history of silyl cations has all the makings of a drama but with a happy ending. Being
considered reactive intermediates impossible to isolate in the condensed phase for …

Oxidative addition and reductive elimination are key steps in a wide variety of catalytic
reactions mediated by transition-metal complexes. Historically, this reactivity has been …

Organosilanes are of vital importance for modern human society, having found widespread
applications in functional materials, organic synthesis, drug discovery and life sciences …

This Review gives a comprehensive overview of the most topical weakly coordinating
anions (WCAs) and contains information on WCA design, stability, and applications. As an …

The study of main-group molecules that behave and react similarly to transition-metal (TM)
complexes has attracted significant interest in recent decades. Most notably, the attractive …

Identification on catalytic sites of heterogeneous catalysts at atomic level is important to
understand catalytic mechanism. Surface engineering on defects of metal oxides can …

The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

Organosilicon compounds act as a nucleophile upon activation by an appropriate base and
behave in a manner similar to main-group organometallic reagents. In the last decades …

Conspectus The use of frustrated Lewis pairs is an extremely important approach to metal-
free hydrogenations. In contrast to the rapid growth of catalytic reactions, asymmetric …

Halogenated triarylboranes (BAr3) have been known for decades, however it has only been
since the surge of interest in main group catalysis that their application as strong Lewis acid …